St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-15
A FLOUR CITY SIEVE.
The Result Of a Days Sitting
Through 1t by Globe Re-
porters.
A Street Walker in Minneap-
oils Who Posed as a Model
Woman.
The Catholic Fair a Success
A Salvation Army Soldier
Buried.
Minnie Maddern Defends Sara
Jewett--Sunday Fire Losses
Exaggerated.
A SENSATION LET DOWN.
A Street Walker Who Palmed
Herself Off as VirtuOus
Maiden.


Yesterdays morning papers. includ-
ing the GLOBE, contained accounts OF
terrible injury to a girl drugged, out
ragged and finally kicked from hack, TO
be picked up by the police in terribly
bruised condition. She was beautiful,
young. innocent" etc, and the man
who had accomplished her ruin. accord
ing to her story, was no other than
Hank Seelye, who. because of his thirty
years residence in the city and prOmi-
hence in horse and sporting circles, is
well known.
Mr.. Seelye called at the GLOBE Office
Yesterday morning with blood in his
eye. In voice of suppressed emotion
he registered an oath cOuched in terms
that would Startle an anarchist, i'll
which he avOwed his entire innocence
of any connection with the affair. At
his request reporter accompanied him
to the hospital to receive from the girls
own lips the story of her wrongs. At
the hospital the illusion of beautiful
young girl completely vanished. The
reporter recognized in the occupant OF
the couch a woman who week before
had been fined in the municipal court
for getting on a drunk and making her
self too conspicuous on the streets:
woman from whose face the lines Of ten
derness and the bloom of youth had
vanished. He asked her:
Ibid Seelye drug and outrage yOu?;
Il think he had me drugged."
''Where?';
In ROOM"
"What TOOm?"
81 don't know"
did he outrage you?"
mo, | don't think he did"
''Was he with you in the hack when
YOU were thrown Out?''
II think he was"
"Were you virtuous before you met
him?"
Yes"
Subsequently Mr.. Seelye convinced
the reporter by the half dozen witnesses,
who did not know why the question was
put to them. thathe could not have been
with the woman IN the hack Saturday
night at the time she named nor during
the previous nor subsequent three
hours.
Later the information came through
gentleman who knew the girl almost
from childhood up that her character
was such as to render the drugging and
outrage story simply absurd and ridicu
lOuS.
Lizzie Buckley. he said. was born at
Auburn, Me. Her parents were respect
able. Woodworking people. She went TO
the bad at least five years ago. At Lew
istOn. Me-. she was arrested and con-
Victed of adultery with a man named
Farnham and received two years SEN
tence in the Auburn prison. She man
aged to catch the sheriff son in com
promising situation and secured her re-
lease upon promise to leave the state.
She had two sisters living in Duluth
and was sent to Minnesota to reform.
She got as far as Minneapolis, and about
year ago last July was arrested while
in the company of negro, and sen
fenced to the county Jail. She's tough
woman and her statements are not to
be in the least relied upon. She is sim
ply common street walker of the most
brazen type. Mr.. Seelye can probably
consider himself eXOnerated. The
wOman's idea in telling the sensational
story she did was simply to escape i'm
prisOnment at the wOrkhOuse for drunk
enneSS.